Opinion
Sun, December 3, 2023 | 11:10
Editorial
Koreans might have to be more aware of potential language barriers when ordering in restaurants starting next year. On Monday, the government said it would expand the industries ...
Earlier this month, Admiral Kim Myung-soo, the new chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs, called for South Korea’s acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines, reviving a debate ab...
Thoughts of the Times
The pervasiveness of food waste in our society poses a grave environmental and climate concern. The majority of discarded food ends up in ...
With a pretty good degree of certainty, whilst approaching my eighth decade, time is not on my side. With all certainty, impending death h...
Blogs
Unless you have lived in Korea for a long time, you are probably unaware of Son-dol Day, which occurs every year on the 20th day of the 10...
I was walking out of a Fred Perry store in Gangnam’s COEX shopping mall when I decided I’d write this column. The man working there was in...
“Miguk-in onda,” the Korean kids used to shout at me as I walked past the convenience store. The mere sight of a white guy on the streets ...
According to legends, long before tigers smoked pipes, Korea was ruled by giants.
We all know that Korean people work hard. It’s something like a national motto. We study hard, practice hard, sing hard. The delivery driv...
Columns
. Donald Kirk
The last thing the Americans can afford is involvement in a significantly wider war in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, two regions whe...
The United Nations Command (UNC) in South Korea is a game-changing initiative that has brought together the forces of 17 countries to guar...
I recently had a wonderful opportunity to see 'Evita' (the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice) at the classy Shakespeare Theatre ...
Rushan Ziatdinov
Last year, The Korea Times published an article in which Canadians gave advice on how to stay warm during South Korean winters. I would ag...
Every U.S. legislator who currently opposes continuing aid to Ukraine should be forced to watch '20 Days in Mariupol,' a PBS 'Frontline' d...
. John J. Metzler
North Korea got lucky. After two previous failures earlier this year to launch a spy satellite, Pyongyang successfully sent a satellite in...
Sandip Kumar Mishra
It was not unexpected that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Chinese President Xi Jinping could not meet on the sidelines of the AP...
Climate change is impacting the world at an unprecedented rate. The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continues to rise ...
Gluten-free labeling on food products is permitted on grains that do not contain gluten as ingredients or use ingredients from which glute...
Recently, two notable studies have been reported in relation to the Japanese Society of International Law. First, the Takeshima documents ...
Cartoons
Hell of a temperature
War pause
Tribune Service
If Joe Biden wins in 2024, he will make history by being the oldest person elected to the presidency. That month, he’ll turn 82. There is no shortage of people who doub...
During the pandemic years, Americans’ trust in scientists fell, according to a Pew poll released this month. In 2019, only 13 percent of Americans were distrustful enou...
Nate Balis wants you to know that kids make up just 4 percent of all arrests in Baltimore City.
Today in History

1640 — Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule

1641 — Massachusetts becomes first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery

1821 — Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) proclaims independence from Spain

1878 — First White House telephone installed

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